{"id":741001,"date":"2022-01-08T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/black-stars-cant-win-afcon-because-its-become-an-agency-to-advertise-players-jordon-opoku-reveal\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T20:25:33","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T20:25:33","slug":"black-stars-cant-win-afcon-because-its-become-an-agency-to-advertise-players-jordon-opoku-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/black-stars-cant-win-afcon-because-its-become-an-agency-to-advertise-players-jordon-opoku-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Stars can&#8217;t Win AFCON because it&#8217;s become an agency to advertise players -Jordon Opoku reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/702cb6ca83264cb2b0813acfb92471fd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Former Asante Kokoto player, Jordan Opoku has indicated that the Black Stars of Ghana cannot win the African Cup of Nations AFCON Because the team has become an agency to advertise players.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive interview with DJ Nyaami on SVTV Africa, Jordan stated that the performance of the current squad is below standards as compared to the previous Black Stars team. He added that there are better players but they are not called.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you speak the truth about football in Ghana, people will call it jealousy. You will bear with less with me that where we expect the performance to be is not where it is. If you compare it to Essien\u2019s squad, the performance is low,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In response to what he believes is the problem with the Black Stars team, Jordan revealed that it has become an avenue for people to promote their players. According to him, some more talented players deserve the slot but are denied the chance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur problem is that some agents fight for their players to be part but there are better players who deserve to be there. There are also players like Harrison Afful, Kwadwo Asamoah who can still play so that the young ones can learn from them. This is not the time to retire Asamoah Gyan. He can still play,\u201d Jordan added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Jordan also spoke about his former coach at Kokoto, CK Akonnor, his retirement and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The AFCON begins tomorrow, January, 9 to February 6, 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kindly watch the full interview on YouTube: SVTV Africa<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CK Akonnor Was My Problem At Kotoko, He Didn&#039;t Like Me - Jordan Opoku Reveals More Deep Secrets\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RUg1CBuGdJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SVTV (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAsante Kokoto<br \/>\nBlack Stars<br \/>\nDJ Nyaami<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nJordan Opoku<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Asante Kokoto player, Jordan Opoku has indicated that the Black Stars of Ghana cannot win the African Cup of Nations AFCON Because the team has become an agency to advertise players.\u00a0 In an exclusive interview with DJ Nyaami on SVTV Africa, Jordan stated that the performance of the current squad is below standards as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=741001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=741001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=741001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=741001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}